For this he rejoices

Leon Wieseltier former flatbush yeshiva boy, author of Kaddish (great book), in the New Republic:

Even faced with the idea of Greater Palestine, it is impossible not to rejoice in the defeat of the idea of Greater Israel. It was always a foul idea, morally and strategically. It promoted the immediate ecstasy of the few above the eventual safety of the many; it introduced the toxins of messianism and mysticism into the politics of a great modern democracy; it preferred chosenness to human rights; it subordinated laws to visions, and the Jewish state to the Jewish millennium; it worshiped soil in a primitive, almost un-Jewish way. The settlers of the West Bank and Gaza are not a Jewish vanguard, they are a Jewish sect; and in their insistence that the destiny of their state and their society should be held hostage to the fulfillment of their metaphysical and historical conceptions, they have always displayed a sectarian self-love....

While Wieseltier conclusion of the wrongness of the settlements is sound, his flowery verbiage is his display of self-hate. The Settlers are living a Jewish life in the Jewish land while the author spew his venom from Georgetown U.S.A..